House
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Lulu Likes to Watch
Check it out: I have walls!
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
I'm Floored!
Things are moving right along with the house. They finished the sub-floor yesterday. We passed another inspection, too. On Monday, they’ll put in the radiant heat, and then it’s on to the walls. Hooray!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Big Doin's in Blocksburg
A lot of exciting things have happened since we last chatted. Over the weekend, Frew and my new fast friend Tim drove up to attend the Fortuna Rodeo with me. Besides baking in the grandstands, we ate an inordinate amount of meat, drank beer, and bullshitted with a bunch of smelly cowboys (yay!). Tim also brought his photography equipment and snapped some great portraits of my friends and neighbors.
In other news, the concrete trucks came streaming in yesterday and dumped more than 40 yards of the stuff within the forms Brandon, Josh, and Cliff built last week. Brandon tells me they’ll start in with the hammers and nails next week. So exciting!
Thursday, July 12, 2007
They're Starting the Foundation!
If there was any disputing it before, we have now officially broken ground. Concrete trucks will be arriving next week, and then the actual sawing and hammering will be underway. Yay!
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
House Update
So, after about a month of waiting around, I finally got word that my building permit is ready. We’ll start the foundation early next week, but in the meantime, I’ve been putting in a spectacular water system with the help of the Rock Hound and the Diesel Mechanic (I shudder to think where I’d be at this point without the help of the Diesel Mechanic). I’ve currently got 5,000 gallons of my own water stored, and by the end of summer I should have 10,000. We ran two-inch pipe from the tanks, so the pressure is actually pretty good considering we have a short drop (it’s all gravity fed). The Rock Hound knows all about fire fighting, too, so he set me up with my own fire hydrant by the house. We’re going to put another one in by the trailer. Very cool!
Unfortunately, we accidentally cut the town water while we were digging a trench to lay the pipe. It was easily remedied, though, and no one ever seemed to notice (or at least they didn’t say anything if they did). Nevertheless, it made for an exciting half hour around here.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Look What Pat and I Did!
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past month or so, it’s that it’s extremely hard to do any kind of construction work on your own when you are built like me. I wish that statement meant something like my D-cups are constantly getting in the way of all that hammering and sawing I want to do, but unfortunately what I’m really trying to say is that I’m having to learn to accept that I am a very small person and it’s hard for me to do a lot of the projects I need to complete on my own. I need a hand! OK, there. I said it.
That hand came in the form of P-A-T this weekend. He showed up with bags upon bags of Trader Joe’s and ready to work. We didn’t get as much done as I had hoped, but we did finish building a little deck in front of the trailer, which allowed me to move the table up out of the dirt. Yay!
